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Examples

  • I was impressed by Mablethorpe when I was five, for goodness sake.

    Chez Moi Peter Ashley 2008

  • I'm going most of the events are at Mablethorpe though I think.

    Beach Life No.1 Peter Ashley 2007

  • Anderby Creek to Mablethorpe next weekend is the focus for a beach hut festival called Bathing Beauties (google it - should work)

    Beach Life No.1 Peter Ashley 2007

  • There are days when the wolds seem dreary and monotonous; but if change is wanted, a long walk or an easy drive will take us from Somersby, as it often took the Tennyson brothers, to the coast at Mablethorpe, where the long rollers of the North Sea beat upon the sandhills that guard the flat stretches of the marshland.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • It was a very different coast to the bleak sandhills and wide flats of Mablethorpe.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • Tennyson's early knowledge of the sea was obtained at Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire coast, where the family spent their summer holidays.

    What to See in England Gordon Home 1923

  • And great tortures he suffered lest the tin box should be put out at Firsby instead of at Mablethorpe.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • He had discovered a poem by Jean Ingelow which mentioned Mablethorpe, and so he must read it to Miriam.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • "I try to think of the nice times -- when we went to Mablethorpe, and Robin Hood's Bay, and Shanklin," she said.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

  • At last they got an answer from Mablethorpe, a cottage such as they wished for thirty shillings a week.

    Sons and Lovers 1913

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